The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
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The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq.
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Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.
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A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.
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To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!
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Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
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A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
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The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or eighteen, a girl w...
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Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
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Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
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Calamity is the test of integrity.
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Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
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As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
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Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
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The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, 'I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so go...
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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
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Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
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All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
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A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.
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The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
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Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
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It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.
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Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
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A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
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A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
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The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
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Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.
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If women would make themselves appear as elegant to an Husband, as they were desirous to appear to him while a Lover, the Rake, which all wome...
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